Bug 12454 – Web page is displayed blank

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: New Bugs

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Steps to reproduce:

1) Load http://www.railsconfau.com/

Expected results:
Page is displayed.

Actual results:
Blank page is displayed.

Notes:
Behaviour is identical in WebKit 418.9.1 and ToT.  Firefox and Opera display the page contents.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Created attachment 12733 [details]
Reduction

The problem appears to occur when there is a script tag referencing an external JavaScript file followed by an inline stylesheet that contains an unclosed comment tag.  Removing the script element causes the page content to be displayed as expected.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Sounds similar (but not quite the same) as Bug 6314.

[Gerald Cornish]

Also true for Safari 3.2.1 sans Webkit

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Also true for Safari 3.2.1 sans Webkit

DNS says www.railsconfau.com doesn't exist.  Can this be closed?

[Gerald Cornish]

This page shows blank in Safari 3.2.1 with AND without Webkit.
Displays as expected in Firefox 3.0.3 and Camino 1.6.6

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Assuming "this page" is the attached reduction - yes, it still displays blank. The bug URL no longer points to any page.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Assuming "this page" is the attached reduction - yes, it still displays blank.
> The bug URL no longer points to any page.

WebKit parses the source correctly according to html5lib.

[Gerald Cornish]

http://www.myoffers.co.uk/win-a-year-free-commuting-7075-4.asp?in=1&email=geraldcornish%40googlemail%2Ecom&enpass=wfhmjq
This site fails in Safari 3.2.1 with and without webket 

[CWG]

I'm seeing this at:

http://www.stupidstuff.org/main/bubblewrap.htm

Webkit displays a blank page, but the bubblewrap sound effects are there.

Safari v. 3.2.1 displays correctly.

I'm also seeing the problem in Chatzy chat:

http://www.chatzy.com 

although there it is "intermittent".  A new chat line causes the whole page to disappear, but doing just about anything, such as clicking the left column hide arrow at the middle left of the chat, causes the text to reappear.

[CWG]

Just to clarify, by:

" ... causes the whole page to disappear ... "

I meant the whole page of chat text.

The surrounding chat support HTML remains displayed.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

CWG, please file a new bug report about the problem you're seeing.  There's no details to suggest that what you're seeing is the same as this original bug report.

[Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google)]

*** Bug 23590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> http://www.myoffers.co.uk/win-a-year-free-commuting-7075-4.asp?in=1&email=geraldcornish%40googlemail%2Ecom&enpass=wfhmjq
> This site fails in Safari 3.2.1 with and without webket 

Filed Bug 23970.  This page was blank due to a different issue.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I'm seeing this at:
> 
> http://www.stupidstuff.org/main/bubblewrap.htm
> 
> Webkit displays a blank page, but the bubblewrap sound effects are there.
> 
> Safari v. 3.2.1 displays correctly.
> 
> I'm also seeing the problem in Chatzy chat:
> 
> http://www.chatzy.com 
> 
> although there it is "intermittent".  A new chat line causes the whole page to
> disappear, but doing just about anything, such as clicking the left column hide
> arrow at the middle left of the chat, causes the text to reappear.

I don't see any issues with WebKit nightly build r41017 with either URL.

[Gerald Cornish]

With Safari Version 4 Public Beta (4528.16, r41242) these web pages display blank...
http://marguns.com/Images/page.php?p=224837&f=32
http://frankvaldes.com/viewtopic.php?m=35&tp=57553&l=836

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #15)
> With Safari Version 4 Public Beta (4528.16, r41242) these web pages display
> blank...
> http://marguns.com/Images/page.php?p=224837&f=32
> http://frankvaldes.com/viewtopic.php?m=35&tp=57553&l=836

Both pages are blank in Firefox 3.0.5 as well, and when spoofing as Firefox 3.0 and MSIE 7.0 in Safari 4 Public Beta.  They are both server-side issues.

[Jon@Chromium]

It appears that progress on this bug has stalled out.  There is no one assigned and no comments for the last three weeks.

This bug was also reported against Chromium, see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=6195

[Adam Barth]

Fixed by the HTML5 parser.